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I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people’s songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.

Brandi Carlile

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
BRANDI CARLILE

Complacency Privilege Sometimes
I’d love to claim the title of ‘songwriter’ or ‘intellectual,’ but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.
BRANDI CARLILE

Intellectual Titles Truth
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
BRANDI CARLILE

Coffee Fishing Needs
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
BRANDI CARLILE

Sane Self Sometimes
I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people’s songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.
BRANDI CARLILE

Believe Creativity Song
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
BRANDI CARLILE

Advice Artist Vintage
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
BRANDI CARLILE

Oppression Problem Time
I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel music, and I still have to feed the animals! But my wife and daughter have brought me a world of perspective when I’m feeling just a little “extra important.”
BRANDI CARLILE

Animal Daughter Fishing
I’m not sure I’ll ever be famous by anyone’s definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life’s work.
BRANDI CARLILE

Audience Definitions Sure
My mother’s a singer and my mother’s father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
BRANDI CARLILE

Country Father Mother
It’s impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That’s why I’ve spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.
BRANDI CARLILE

Fuel Opportunity World
All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I’ve been and how I got to where I am.
BRANDI CARLILE

Across Lines Stories
I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.
BRANDI CARLILE

Air Sleep Wine
In life, I’m most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.
BRANDI CARLILE

People Powerful Thinking
There’s a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend – we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It’s a little bit dangerous, because you’ll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.
BRANDI CARLILE

Believe Vintage Writing
I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren’t sitting well in a record, I’ll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it’s a better time.
BRANDI CARLILE

Records Sitting Song

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